Irrelevant.

Millions of TikTok users are ordinary US citizens and also, the plain text of the First Amendment does not say anything about only applying to citizens.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The "TikTok ban" is, on its face, unconstitutional. There are two theories often stated about how TikTok is bad, one is that the algorithm is manipulated to push certain viewpoints. This goes right to the heart of the First Amendment, the government cannot put itself into the role of censoring the editorial decisions of a publisher. TikTok is a private entity here and a publisher (the press) and it has a clear constitutional right to publish whatever material it chooses so long as that material is not within a few narrowly defined categories such as defamation, csam, or calls to violence. If there was some material that ran afoul of that the remedy would be to ban that material, not to ban a particular publisher from existing.

The second theory is that TikTok is collecting data on its users which is then relayed to the big scary Chinese Communist Party. Every large social media platform collects similar data, and most are perfectly happy to sell that data to any and all buyers who have the money, including the CCP. The remedy here is for Congress to pass data protection laws to protect users here. Just banning TikTok will not only infringe on the 1A rights of millions of TikTok users it will fail to actually do anything to protect the data generated by those users nor will it do anything to protect national security.

I am in the same boat-- no compelling reason to upgrade my 12. I might do it when the next one comes out; 4 years is reasonable for me, although I expected to do it after 3. The Samsung phones seem like a stretch to get 3 years out of.

"CNC porn? Verboten!"

Well, yeah. I'd think porn involving an automatic router would be pretty painful, not to mention dangerous.

You have some typos there: "A lot of men don't want to deal with abusive women."

Here ya go: A lot of women don't want to deal with abusive men. (and realize they don't have to).

It's a fact. Conservatives are obsessed with kids' genitalia and with policing gender presentation, as if a piece of clothing has super-powers.

That statement (that most trans kids just "grow out of it") is debunked bullshit.

I would have moderated you FUNNY, if it had not actually been sad and dystopian.

I've been getting a new one lately when I do that: "We are sorry we were unable to assist you. ...click"

A fine excuse to fire some more Americans! Why not start with the new dads?

I have kids. I'm glad I had them. But would I have been less happy had I not had kids? I'm not sure. My kids are all adults now, and out of the house and independent, and I have to say, I greatly prefer this stage of my life than when the kids were little.

Right, because 0.2% of the population really skews the numbers.

I'm trans and I have three biological kids. *head asplodes*

It all went to shit in 1960. Been shit ever since.

What else happened in 1960?

lol, they can't even make a useful text chatbot for support.

just say jibberish at it until it gives up